Summer 2008 Trip – South Dakota Pictures

Badlands:

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Kevin and I right inside Badlands National Park

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The Wall at sunrise

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A lone bison wondering away from the herd

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The Yellow Mounds

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Plants grow even in this forbidding landscape

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Bighorn sheep standing atop a ridge

Minuteman Missile National Monument

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Delta-1 Control Facility

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Security Forces response vehicle

South Dakota Air and Space Museum

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B-1B Lancer

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Minuteman II missile

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Minuteman II missile in its silo

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Minuteman II missile transport vehicle

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B-29 bomber

Mount Rushmore

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Kevin and I at Mount Rushmore – apparently I can’t keep my eyes open

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A mountain goat and her kid

Jewel Cave

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Jewel Cave is perhaps one of the most difficult shooting locations I’ve ever been to. It is DARK down there, even with the lights the National Park Service has installed.

Needles highway

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The Needles Eye formation

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Two pronghorn antelope thinking about crossing the road